October
10
1361 Prince
Edward (Black Prince) married Joan Plantagenet. The "Fair Maid of
Kent" was not considered the ideal wife for the heir of the English
throne. Joan was the mother of Richard II.
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg in
Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers
and miners, repelled an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
1631
During the Thirty Years War a Saxon army successfully entered Prague (capital
and largest city of the Czech Republic). The war was fought primarily in what
is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe, and
was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.
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